Stock market rallies can be deceiving, CNBC's Jim Cramer said during his daily "Mad Money" show on Wednesday: "Bad rallies" exist, and they're characterized by stock market gains, but for the wrong reasons.
There are three items on a checklist that differentiate "...

Bank stocks were one of the immediate beneficiaries of the "Trump rally" following the 2016 presidential election. But by February 2017, the positive sentiment "drifted out of the stocks," Bernstein's Kevin St. Pierre commented in a research report. Since then, many of the stocks under the analyst'...

Analysts at Piper Jaffray turned bullish on IBERIABANK Corp (NASDAQ: IBKC), a $4 billion bank with hundreds of offices in 10 states mostly throughout the Southern U.S. The firm's Peyton Green upgraded Iberiabank's stock rating from Neutral to Overweight with a newly established $89 price target....

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST)'s credit card partnership with Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) is more than a year old, but may be underappreciated by investors, according to Citi CEO Michael Corbat.
In fact, when Citi was given exclusive rights to a Costco branded credit card the company...

Analysts at Barclays can't remember the last time Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) issued guidance. But when the company did just that in conjunction with its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday, it prompted the firm's Jason Goldberg to maintain an Overweight rating on the stock with...

Following in the steps of their big bank counterparts last week, several large financial companies on Tuesday reported their earnings reports.
Bank of America
Shares of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) were trading lower by around 0.3 percent early Tuesday morning.
Bank of America earned...

Financial stocks are in the midst of a rollercoaster 2017. After a strong start to the year, many bank stocks lost momentum in late March, only to regain momentum in June and July.
Heading into Friday's trading session, the financial sector exchange-traded fund, Financial Select Sector SPDR...

The S&P 500 index continues to trade near historical all-time highs but that doesn't mean every sector within the index is trading in the green for 2017. Quite the contrary, three sectors within the index are lagging the index by the widest margin seen in decades, according to Fundstrat Global...

Financial stocks were the initial beneficiary of the "Trump rally" but have now lost all momentum, and many notable names are even trading in the red for 2017. For example, shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) are now lower by nearly 5 percent since the start of 2017; Goldman Sachs Group...

Financial stocks have been one of the most heavily traded sectors over the last month. The following stocks have been outperforming the market based on trading volume over the past several days:
AgroFresh Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: AGFS)
Yintech Investment Holdings Ltd - ADR (NASDAQ: YIN)...